[Literature] Twain, Mark, and Theodore Roosevelt, et al. Liber Scriptorum

The First Book of the Authors Club. Liber Scriptorum
New York: The Authors Club, 1893. First and limited edition, #10/251 numbered copies, signed by all 109 contributors, including Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, and others. Thick folio. xvi, (ii), 588, (3) pp. Title-page printed in red and in black. Illustrated with head- and tail-pieces, and in-text ornaments. Publisher's full brown straight grain morocco, decorated in black, lettered in gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, boards and extremities scuffed and moderately worn; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; patterned endpapers; by the De Vinne Press.

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The Second Book of the Authors Club Liber Scriptorum
New York: Published by The Authors Club, 1921. First and limited edition, #237/251 numbered copies, signed by 126 contributors, including George Washington Cable, George Barr McCutcheon, Albert Payson Terhune, and others. Thick folio. xx, (ii), 583, (1) pp., editor's Postscript tipped in at rear. Title-page printed in red and in black. Illustrated with head- and tail-pieces. Publisher's full brown pebbled leather, decorated in blind and in gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, corners worn; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.

An impressive and massive literary anthology, featuring poems, stories, essays, and more, from over 230 writers, including Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, and many more.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance

From the collection of Justin G. Schiller

[Literature] Twain, Mark, and Theodore Roosevelt, et al. Liber Scriptorum